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LEADERS IN EDUCATION

PROGRAMME INTERNATIONAL

ChallengingAssumptions

16 – 27 SEPTEMBER SINGAPORE

Today’s school leaders face tremendous challenges. The forces of globalisation aretaxing youths, families, and education systems world-wide. School leaders need to challenge their assumptions in order to stay responsive to this ever-changing environment. The Leaders in Educational Programme International seeks to empower educators with cutting-edge knowledge in this exciting journey of innovation and change in schools.”

Professor Lee Sing KongDirector, National Institute of Education

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As a nation, Singapore’s most valuable resources is it’s people. Its government is therefore committed to the ongoing development of a world-class educational system with highly skilled and qualifi ed teachers.

The National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore is one of the leading teaching preparation institutions in the world and the main institution dedicated to providing all levels of teacher education in Singapore. Our wide spectrum of quality programmes range from initial teacher preparation programmes for aspiring student teachers and professional development programmes for in-service teachers and executive leadership programmes for Principals, Departmental heads, and other school

— Professor Susan Fuhrman President, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA

2nd CJ Koh Professor at NIE, 2009

An Institute of Distinction

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“NIE’s excellence is certainly at theheart of Singapore’s educational success.”

leaders. NIE also administers postgraduate programmes that lead to the award of higher degrees in Arts, Education, Physical Education and Science. In addition, NIE also offers part-time programmes that make it possible for current primary and early childhood teachers the opportunity to earn a Bachelor of Education degree.

NIE is a founding member and inaugural chair of the International Alliance (IA) of Leading Education Institutes, which was fi rst established with seven other world-leading education institutions in August 2007. Recently, the IA has seen an inclusion of two new members to the think tank that will infl uence the education sector globally. Together, they will draw expertise and research in education to generate ideas, identify trends and serve as a collective voice on important educational matters and thus infl uence possibilities and practice in education.

NIE also collaborates with Ministry of Education and its school to transform the teacher preparation system and to ensure it continues to meet changing needs of the education system. NIE also plays an important role in providing education research-based pedagogical curriculum and direction to the Ministry and its schools. This is all in line with the mission of the Ministry, which is to mould the future of our nation.

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A Premier Institute in Asia for School Leadership DevelopmentNIE is recognised as a premier institute in Asia for school leadership development. It enjoys an enviable reputation for teaching and research, both in Singapore and overseas. NIE has been deeply involved in the training of school leaders for 25 over years and has thereby contributed signifi cantly to the success of Singapore schools.

Our academic staff offer an impressive blend of academic credentials and professional experience. Many of them enjoy international recognition for their research and contributions to educational leadership and pedagogy.


— Associate Professor Ng Pak Tee Associate Dean, Leadership Learning

“ Through a process of presenting and debating ideas, while working on a proposal for an innovation in their own schools, participants have to refl ect on why they say the things they say, do the things they do and assume the things they assume. This sparks their creativity. Other than being taught through lectures, participants are engaged in active learning from one another's insights. Leaders learn best with and from one another.’’


Preparing Extraordinary Leaders for the Future6 Leaders in Education Programme International 2013

The educational landscape across the world is giving rise to new and escalating challenges. Nations need innovative people of extraordinary ability to lead schools in a dynamic and uncertain context.

The Leaders in Education Programme International (LEPI) is Singapore’s response to that need.This two-week executive programme is specially catered for school principals and education ministry offi cers. It builds on the highly successful Leaders in Education Programme, which has been producing top quality professionals of extraordinary leadership ability for Singapore’s schools over the past few years.

Launched in 2005, the LEPI programme has quickly established itself as one of NIE’s fl agship programmes. The programme will provide a unique and enriching experience. It engages and support key personnel in education who will be the extraordinary leaders for the future. The programme exposes participants to the latest thinking in educational leadership and will give them the opportunity to spend time in schools to see fi rst-hand how success is achieved. Participants will be inspired to build their individual and collective capacity and learn how to become champions of innovation, so that they can take their schools upwards to higher levels of performance. Participants will work with an international peer group of leaders in education, engaged in effective conversation, learn new ways to ask questions, and benefi t from the peer-to-peer learning experiences.


“The programme is well-structured, defined, practical and enriching. It really nurtures my leadership capacity. The end of this course will be the beginning of work and change for my country, Bhutan.’’

Phurpa WangdiPrincipal, Bhutan, 2012


A Rigorous Two-week Courseto Stretch, Push and Challenge Your Ideas

repare to immerse yourself in this two-week LEPI programme. The experiences in the learning journey will encourage you to think deeply about your role as a leader. You will leave the programme re-energised with new perspectives and ready to inspire.

Who is the Programme for?The programme is for school principals, ministry offi cers, superintendents and other professional educators of similar status.

Over the years, participants of the Leaders in Education Programme have been a diverse mix of education leaders from around the globe. They gathered together with a common objective to learn, to leverage strength, to inspire and to innovate to build a better nation through new paradigms.


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How is the Programme Different from Others?Singapore has taken the lead in principal-ship development, because we seek to create new knowledge, insights and understandings, and to challenge people’s thinking. We focus less on existing knowledge. We do not aim to copy best practice. Rather, we aim to go beyond best practice and to set the lead that others can follow.

Our focus is not on what has been effective in the past or what is effective now. While that may be important, the focus is on the future and the recipes that will be needed for a complex, multifaceted environment of radical change. This programme seeks to bring out the strengths of diversity, difference and challenge in both people and places. It recognises the need for proactive, independent thinkers, who will move their schools forward rapidly. The programme aims to develop leaders who work with the strengths of their organisations, and who fi nd new ways of doing things, achieving breakthroughs in thinking and action.


Exciting new ideas and possibilities will emerge as participants encounter a holistic approach to leadership and are encouraged to refl ect their role as leaders in education in the ever-changing dynamics of the global environment.

Knowledge in the ClassroomTeaching sessions in the form of seminars, hands-on workshops and presentations that support the learning cover:• Globalization and implications for teaching and learning• Leaders as strategic thinker• Leading innovation and gaining competitive advantage• Enhancing knowledge creation and innovation capacity• Leading and managing contemporary schools• The new role of school principals


Syndicate MeetingsInternational participants join together to develop new knowledge through in-depth conversation and exchange on different viewpoints to gain deeper insights into the more critical issues of education and schooling.

School VisitsWe take participants to local schools that are achieving breakthroughs in innovation. Through the sharing of ideas with the schools’ leaders, participants can learn from them how they are approaching education in many creative ways. All with one goal in mind – preparing their students for the future.


What Some Past Participants Say About the Programme14 Leaders in Education Programme International 2013

“ I’ve never seen diversity live in action and beautifully unfolding right before my eyes until I joined this program. I believe our learning has exponentially increased because of this factor. The program did not impose any “canned” program or solution. Instead, it successfully got us into very good refl ection about our own context back home and put them in practice.”

Mdm Maria Eloisa Quiambao The Philippines, 2008

“ The components of the program are well-

organized in a very structural model. The knowledge is not new to me, but it provides practical implication and inspires me to go beyond the best. The program is a nurturing program, with something related to our background knowledge, but at the same time highlights the blind spots in me.”

Mdm Candy Chan Wai-hanPrincipal, Hong Kong, 2009

“ All components of the program are useful to my work and personal development. It has been a profound eye-opener for me by experiencing, hearing and seeing the application of innovation.”

Mr Shali KankondiInspector of Education, Namibia, 2009

“ This particular programme is quite different from other trainings I attended. My two weeks in Singapore is a life learning, unforgettable experience. It is an honour for me to participate in an enjoying, fascinating, well-structured, very constructive training program. It’s so amazing to see the simultaneous diversity, interaction, equal participation of positive inter-dependent participants from all the participating countries. So for me, going back to my homeland with a wealth of knowledge in rich theories, high skills in application of different intervention strategies, I simply say I will walk the talk and talk the walk.”

Ms Vaiaso Finau-PauloPrincipal Offi cer of Ministry of

Education Sports & CultureSamoa, 2010


Mr Bernd Seuling

Germany

“I have never been in such a knowledgeable and caring environment at the same time! All trainers represented a wonderful mixture of professionalism, wisdom, experience and humanity.”

Mr Renat ZamanovHigh School Principal, Tatarstan, 2010

“ This dynamic programme is obviously different from the kind that I have attended before. The two-week study in NIE Singapore is a memorable period as part of my lifelong professional development. The learning experience is explicit and it is really an honourable and fascinating programme for leaders from the world.”

Mrs Pamela Chiu Tse Lai-wahPrincipal, Hong Kong, 2011

“The whole program brings me to a new world of idea and issues of education. It shares the international experience in education among us, provides me knowledge and innovation capacity. This program is very structural and practical and gave me deeper insights in my work. The program goes beyond best practice.”

Dr San AyePro-rector, Sittway University,

Ministry of Education, Myanmar2012

“Excellent programme! It will be great help to

my work. The learnings I gained will enhance my personal and professional perspectives and eventually impact on the level of accomplishments of my organization.”

Ms Esther BabaloAssociate Professor II & Offi cer-in-Charge

School Administrator,Technical Education and Skills Development Authority,

The Philippines2012

“Because of the interactions between so many

countries, the work on case project brings in new knowledge. Very good lectures and in a pleasant environment.”


The NIE Leaders in Education Programme International experience does not end with the completion of the 10-day programme. Participants will be eligible to join the LEPI Alumni and be invited to events and activities which further build on the experiences of the LEPI programme. This provides an opportunity for constant connections and interactions with peers and other participants in this programme.

Some of the schools and institutions where participants were from• Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines) • Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Philippines)• Ministry of Education, Sports, Arts, Culture (Zimbabwe)• Mexican Ministry of Public Education (United Mexican States)• Abu Dhabi Education Council (United Arab Emirates)• Institute of Education Management Development (Lao PDR)• Ministry of Education and Employment (Malta)• Ministry of Education and Science (Latvia)• Caring for Cambodia (Cambodia)

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• Supreme Education Council (Qatar)• National Educational Counseling Service (Mauritius)• Li Cheng UK Govt Primary School (Hong Kong)• H/Tangalle Primary School (Sri Lanka)• Delhi Public School Patna (India)• Parap Primary, Department of Education, Northern Territory (Australia)• Sayyidina Hasan Secondary School (Brunei Darussalam)• Anse Royale Secondary School (Seychelles)• King’s College (Hong Kong)• Solomon Islands College of Higher Education (Solomon Island)• University of Abuja (Nigeria)• Xavier University High School (The Philippines)• University of World Economy & Diplomacy (Uzbekistan)• Dong Thap University (Vietnam)

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Canada El SalvadorMexicoChile

AfricaBurkina FasoGambiaGhana NamibiaKenyaMalawi Mauritius Morocco

EuropeAlbaniaAzerbaijanEstonia Germany LatviaMaltaMoldovaRussiaTurkey

North/South America

Since its launch in 2005, the Leaders in Education Programme (International) has quickly established itself as one of NIE’s fl agship programmes, attracting school leaders around the world.


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Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Laos Maldives Malaysia Myanmar Nepal

NigeriaRwanda SeychellesTanzania TongaTunisiaUganda Zimbabwe

Australia & OceaniaAustralia Cook Islands FijiNew ZealandPalauSolomon IslandsPapua New Guinea

AsiaOman Pakistan Palestine The Philippines Qatar Samoa Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Thailand United Arab EmiratesUzbekistan Vietnam


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GENERAL INFORMATIONAwardOn successful completion of the programme, participants will be awarded the Leaders in Education Programme International Certifi cate.

AssessmentIn order to gain the Certifi cate, participants must attend the whole programme and meet the assessment requirements. The two major tasks are to design an innovation project (group) and to complete a learning journal (personal). There are no formal examinations.

Course DurationThe LEPI will be conducted from Monday, 16 September to Friday, 27 September 2013 (2 weeks; 10 course days).

ApplicationApplicants must be degree holders or have equivalent qualifi cations. They should also have a good command of English. They must have at least one year of senior management experience in a school or government ministry. Applications may be submitted at any time until the closing date, but the programme has only limited places. Once places are fi lled, further applications will be put on a waiting list or the list for the following year’s programme.

FeesCurrent fee is S$4,280.00 (inclusive of government’s 7% Goods & Services Tax). Once a place is offered, on acceptance, applicants must pay a nonrefundable deposit of S$400. The fees must be paid in full prior to the starts of the programme.

Air Fare and AccommodationAir fare and accommodation are to be borne by the participants. On payment of a deposit, NIE International offi ce will be able to help arrange for accommodation at corporate rates in a quality hotel or the university’s Nanyang Executive Centre (www.ntu.edu.sg/nec).

Transport and MealsTransport to and fro from NIE, school visits during the programme will be covered for participants staying at LEPI appointed hotels (including Nanyang Executive Centre). LEPI fees include tea breaks and lunch during the programme. Other meals and weekend costs will be borne by participants. Public transport is inexpensive in Singapore. Food is relatively cheap and varied, where vegetarian and Muslim meals are commonly available.

Application and enquiries can be made to:

Administrator (Leadership Programmes)NIE InternationalNational Institute of EducationNanyang Technological University1 Nanyang WalkSingapore 637616Tel: (65) 6219 6003Fax: (65) 6316 5502Email: [email protected]

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Closing Date for Applications: 5 July 2013

Course Duration: 16–27 September 2013

Applications and Enquiries: Administrator (Leadership Programmes)Tel: (65) 6219 6003Fax: (65) 6316 5502Email: [email protected]


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